Aquarium Drunkard — Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits go together like, well, a shot bourbon and a glass of beer. But you already knew that. Back when I was still doing free-form radio, downtown, prior to the show on SIRIUS, I would occasionally air Tom Waits’ riff (as DJ L... more info

Pitchfork — Director Francis Ford Coppola publishes a quarterly magazine called Zoetrope: All-Story that features art, short fiction, and one-act plays. For the upcoming summer issue, PJ Harvey will act as the mag's guest designer, a post previously held by Tom ... more info

ContactMusic — The Gaslight Anthem think record contracts are "so horrible they should be illegal".The alternative punk band' singer and guitarist, Brain Fallon, said he can't... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Toxik Boys said... L.P.R ("Los Pichulas Rojas" or "Los Pata en la Raja") - Música de la Película Rascame los Cocos a Balazos (1989?) Rehersal Tape Another grindcore pioneer in Chile. A fucking rarity!! http://crucifiedforyoursins.blogspot.com C... more info

Metalsucks — Wormrot’s story is the stuff of Horatio Alger. The band hail from Singapore (about which, I admit, all I really knew was that it’s in Asia and there’s a Tom Waits song named after it) and released a grind album apparently so good... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — For freaks like myself, the below pairing of Tom Waits guesting on Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour is like manna. The following five tracks find Waits calling in to Dylan’s show, commenting on various subjects, reveling in the everyday bizarre.... more info

Stereogum — Mates Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner’s Crushes…, their first album since 2008’s Re-Arrange Us, includes covers of 10 fairly diverse artists. There are links between a couple — say Tom Waits and Nick Cave — but the jump from Girls to the Mars... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Crackerfarm This summer, the married indie pop duo Mates of State will release their very own "The Spaghetti Incident?". Crushes (The Covers Mixtape), their album of covers, was recorded and produced by Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner themselv... more info

All About Jazz — Kirk Knuffke, Amnesia Brown (Clean Feed). Knuffke's trumpet tone is notable for softness, fullness and evenness. The audacity of risk in his improvisational concept would be the envy of the Flying Wallendas. The contrast between his sound and the con... more info

Guardian Music — Combative label boss and manager of Frank Zappa and Tom WaitsHerb Cohen, who has died aged 77 of complications from cancer, did not elicit much affection from the artists he managed, but he played a pivotal role in shaping the music of the California... more info